Shakespeare Sonnet 91

Print for the Bodleian Library, Oxford

2016 saw the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. A call went out from Oxford University's Bodleian Library for letterpress and fine press printers to create a newly envisioned and printed set of all 154 sonnets in celebration. I was delighted to be able to take part in this and chose Sonnet 91:

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:But these particulars are not my measure;All these I better in one general best.Thy love is better than high birth to me,Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,Of more delight than hawks or horses be;And having thee, of all men's pride I boast: Wretched in this alone, that thou may'st take All this away, and me most wretched make.